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Despite filing of zero taxes by 90 lawmakers, missing returns of 129 lawmakers, the total tax filed for FY2013-2014 is more than double that of FY2012-2013 ─ File

ISLAMABAD: Out of 1,169 parliamentarians, only 1,040 have filed tax returns for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2013-2014.

In the Parliamentarians Tax Directory issued on Friday by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) for the year ending June 30, 2014, a note by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar says “for the remaining parliamentarians, due process is being undertaken."

The "remaining" 129 parliamentarians' names have not been included in the PTD.

Five prominent parliamentarians missing from the PTD

Murad Saeed

Ghulam Rabbani Khar

Makhdoom Amin Fahim

Arif Alvi

Sharmila Farooqui

According to the FBR, the Parliamentarians Tax Directory (PTD) is meant to provide tax details of members of the senate, National Assembly (NA) and the provincial assemblies (PAs).

As of April 10, 2015 of this year, the total tax filed by parliamentarians in the FY2013-2014 is Rs553,202,514. This figure consists of personal income tax returns and tax filed by parliamentarians as members of an Association of Persons (AOP).

“Association of persons” includes a firm (the relation between persons who have agreed to share the profits of a business carried on by all or any of them acting for all), a Hindu undivided family, any artificial juridical person and any body of persons formed under a foreign law, but does not include a company.

The PTD documents tax filed by 96 members of the Senate, 305 members of the NA, and 639 members of the PAs.

Senate: 96 members, 22.2pc of the total tax filed

National Assembly: 305 members, 23.5pc of the total tax filed

Provincial assemblies: 639 members, 54.3pc of the total tax filed

Which provincial assembly pays the highest taxes?

The Punjab Assembly pays the highest taxes in comparison to those of Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, at approximately Rs185 million. However, nearly 55pc of this amount is AOP taxes.

Punjab Assembly: Rs185m, with Rs84m in income tax and Rs101m in AOP tax

Sindh Assembly: Rs70.6m, with Rs31.1m in income tax and Rs39.5m in AOP tax

KP Assembly: Rs36.3m, with Rs26.5m in income tax and Rs9.8m in AOP tax

Balochistan Assembly: Rs8.9m, with Rs8.8m in income tax and Rs0.1m in AOP tax

Highest and lowest tax filings

The highest personal income tax was filed by Punjab Assembly member Chaudhry Arshad Javaid Warraich.

The highest AOP tax was filed by Chaudhry M Asadullah, a Punjab Assembly member, while the lowest AOP tax was filed by Abdul Qahar Wadan, a member of the NA.

Only 98 members of the parliament were required to file AOP tax returns.

Of the 1,040 parliamentarians who have filed tax returns, 95 members of parliament paid no income tax. Of this group, five members paid AOP taxes, while 90 members paid absolutely no taxes at all.

Prominent parliamentarians featured in the PTD

PML-N

Nawaz Sharif: Rs2,611,037 in income tax

Shahbaz Sharif: Rs5,125,545 in income tax

Hamza Shahbaz Sharif: Rs4,888,122 in income tax

Capt (Retd) M Safdar: Rs39,900 in income tax

Ishaq Dar: Rs2,286,702 in income tax

Pervaiz Rasheed: Rs313,681 in income tax

Chaudhry Nisar: Rs641,284 in income tax

Khawaja Saad Rafique: Rs2,041,936 in income tax

Khawaja Asif: Rs311,638 in income tax, Rs4,410,491 in AOP tax

Ayaz Sadiq: Rs327,895 in income tax

Raja Zafarul Haq: Rs99,446 in income tax

PPP

Rehman Malik: Rs17,379 in income tax

Khursheed Shah: Rs100,054 in income tax

Qaim Ali Shah: Rs111,772 in income tax

Raza Rabbani: Rs685,707 in income tax and Rs420,865 in AOP tax

Aitzaz Ahsan: Rs12,474,875 in income tax

Sharjeel Memon: Rs1,589,564 in income tax

Faryal Talpur: Rs 4,823,739 in income tax

Pakistan Tehkreek-i-Insaf (PTI)

Imran Khan: Rs218,237 in income tax

Shah Mehmood Qureshi: Rs1,533,731 in income tax

Asad Umar: Rs489,457 in income tax

Pervez Khattak: Rs660,619 in income tax

Shireen Mazari: Rs1,121,005 in income tax

Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM)

Farooq Sattar: Rs89,935 in income tax

Abdul Rashid Godil: Rs31,377 in income tax

Syed Ali Raza Abidi: Rs493,890 in income tax

Babar Ghauri: No tax return filed

Others

Maulana Fazlur Rehman: Rs15,688 in income tax

Sheikh Rasheed: Rs303,893 in income tax

Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao: Rs1,688,917 in income tax

Hasil Bizenjo: Rs29,818 in income tax

Mehmood Khan Achakzai: Rs15,688 in income tax

Ahmad Bilour: Rs835,893 in income tax

Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri: Rs30,169 in income tax

PTD FY2012-2013

Tax filed for FY2012-2013 was Rs258,630,039 ─ less than half the tax amount filed for FY2013-2014.

Senate: Rs80,589,963 of which Rs76,734,892 was income tax, and Rs3,855,071 was AOP and/or income support levy

National Assembly: Rs51,087,920 of which 49,839,574 was income tax, and Rs1,248,346 was AOP and/or income support levy

Provincial assemblies: Rs126,952,156 of which Rs125,264,601 was income tax, and Rs1,687,555 was AOP and/or income support levy

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Comments (8) Closed

numbers never lies... the figures speaks the volume of them being patriots. Yet we are blind.

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muhammad

Apr 12, 2015 04:44pm

ye log baz nhi ayegay Tax chur saray ke saray

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intelektuaL

Apr 12, 2015 05:01pm

Babar Ghouri is specifically Mentioned while The Zardaries are absent strangely biased !

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Sheraz Khan

Apr 12, 2015 05:45pm

Rehman Malik pays only 17, 379 RS? really....? does he work
in a butcher shop?

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Aftab Ali

Apr 12, 2015 06:00pm

@khanm
Patriots who own over a billion dollars = 100 billion rupees each, file only 2 million Rs in tax? Wow! If this is your understanding of "patriotism", I don't want to know your understanding of anything else.

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Ali Vazir

Apr 12, 2015 06:44pm

Is there any agency that will verify the declarations?
A brilliant suggestion from a law-maker to publish Tax Directory of journalists, businessmen and bureaucrats too. This will give credibility to the reporters who are honest and real patriots. Singling out politicians can never be an appreciable step.

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M.Saeed

Apr 12, 2015 10:44pm

Where are the fbr sniffers? Self assessment must follow with the spending-matches with the presumptive taxes due !